On the 9th of September 1658, the judicial machinery of seventeenth-century Scotland turned toward an individual identified in the records as John Mylne, a woman residing in Inveraray, Aberdeen. Her case, documented under the reference C/LA/3130, emerged during a period of heightened scrutiny regarding allegations of maleficium and diabolical pacts. The administrative process initiated against her was formally entered into the Aberdeen Roll, marking her transition from a member of the local community into the purview of the formal legal system.
The proceedings reached a swift and decisive conclusion on the same day they were registered. According to the trial notes (T/LA/1569), the diet was deserted, a procedural outcome in Scots law that effectively terminated the prosecution. With this dismissal, the legal process against John was abandoned, and she was released from the immediate threat of trial and the subsequent consequences that such accusations often carried in the social climate of 1658.